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The going down to the potter’s house, and the LORD’s word “as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand”

토기장이의 집으로 내려가서 본 일과 진흙이 토기장이의 손에 있음 같다는 여호와의 말씀

Jeremiah 18:1–12: the text says, “The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, ‘Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.’ Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making something on the wheels. When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. Then the LORD’s word came to me, saying, ‘House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?’ says the LORD. ‘Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel. At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it, if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them. At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they don’t obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them. Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, “The LORD says: ‘Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you. Everyone return from his evil way now, and amend your ways and your doings.’” But they say, “It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.”’” 18:3–4 tell as done what “I” saw on going down to the potter’s house, and no verse of 18:3–12 names that “I”. The Korean Revised Version reads at 18:4 그가 그것으로 자기 의견에 선한대로 다른 그릇을 만들더라 (he made it into another vessel as seemed good to him), where WEB reads “he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it”, and opens the LORD’s words at 18:6 with 나 여호와가 이르노라 (I, the LORD, say), where WEB sets “says the LORD” after the first question.

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JER 18:1–12, engwebp
¹The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
²“Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.”
³Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making something on the wheels.
⁴When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
⁵Then the LORD’s word came to me, saying,
⁶“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says the LORD. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.
⁷At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it,
⁸if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.
⁹At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it,
¹⁰if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they don’t obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.
¹¹“Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘The LORD says: “Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you. Everyone return from his evil way now, and amend your ways and your doings.”’
¹²But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
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Evidence: Jeremiah 18:1–12

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Entry: The going down to the potter’s house, and the LORD’s word “as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand” (event-jer-18-the-potters-house)
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Current wording: Jeremiah 18:1–12: the text says, “The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, ‘Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.’ Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making something on the wheels. When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. Then the LORD’s word came to me, saying, ‘House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?’ says the LORD. ‘Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel. At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it, if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them. At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they don’t obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them. Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, “The LORD says: ‘Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you. Everyone return from his evil way now, and amend your ways and your doings.’” But they say, “It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.”’” 18:3–4 tell as done what “I” saw on going down to the potter’s house, and no verse of 18:3–12 names that “I”. The Korean Revised Version reads at 18:4 그가 그것으로 자기 의견에 선한대로 다른 그릇을 만들더라 (he made it into another vessel as seemed good to him), where WEB reads “he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it”, and opens the LORD’s words at 18:6 with 나 여호와가 이르노라 (I, the LORD, say), where WEB sets “says the LORD” after the first question.
Cited evidence: JER 18:1–12, engwebp
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